Top US officials will meet with Zelensky on their first visit to Kyiv during the war

The US top diplomat and defence leader were scheduled to arrive in Kyiv on Sunday for their first wartime trips since Russia invaded Ukraine two months ago, with ferocious clashes continuing in the country's east.

The mission by Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin comes as the conflict approaches its third month, killing thousands and displacing millions.

Several European politicians hav....